Bing Er has been captured?
Mo Fan was stunned upon hearing this. He quickly recalled the information Bing Qi had told him earlier. It seemed that Bing Qi had mentioned that Yun Rou had taken Bing Er with her when leaving the market.
Along the way, Mo Fan had only been concerned about Yun Rou’s safety and had overlooked Bing Er. Only now, hearing Yun Rou mention it, did he remember.
Next, under Mo Fan’s inquiries, Yun Rou explained everything.
It turned out that after she brought Bing Er to White Holy Mountain, she went to the ancestral land of the Black Tiger lineage, intending to tell Black Flame one thing: Mo Fan would no longer compete with him for the position of Holy Son, so she hoped Black Flame would not disturb Mo Fan’s life.
Originally, everything was discussed quite well, but when they were about to leave, Black Nether appeared. After learning Yun Rou’s purpose, he instead rejected it all and expressed hope that Black Flame could have a fair and just battle with the inheritor of White Holy.
Not only that, Black Nether also hoped Yun Rou could stand from the overall perspective of White Holy Mountain and marry the future Holy Son of White Holy Mountain.
Because only in this way could all the great demons of White Holy Mountain truly unite as one, and only thus would White Holy Mountain avoid the danger of falling apart.
Due to Black Nether’s pressure, Yun Rou initially dealt with him evasively, wanting to take the opportunity to escape from the Black Tiger lineage’s ancestral land. As a result, Black Nether, citing that he did not want her to disrupt the normal process of the Holy Son selection, planned to detain her.
In desperation, Yun Rou finally chose to act.
After learning Black Nether’s intentions, she understood that the Black Tiger lineage would never let Mo Fan go. So she directly attacked Black Flame, who was in secluded cultivation.
As long as Black Flame died, the Holy Son of White Holy Mountain would most likely not fall to the Black Tiger lineage, and Black Nether’s plans would naturally come to nothing.
However, she still underestimated Black Nether’s strength. Not only did she fail to kill Black Flame, but in the end, she trapped herself in the Nether Dead Land.
With Yun Rou trapped, Bing Er naturally fell into Black Nether’s hands, and to this day, her life or death was unknown.
“Is the Nether Dead Land not beneath this Changgui Mountain?”
Mo Fan looked at Yun Rou somewhat puzzled. In his view, since Yun Rou was the adopted daughter of the White Tiger Holy King, she should have great influence throughout White Holy Mountain. If she had escaped from the so-called Black Tiger ancestral land, it would not have been so easy for Black Nether to kill her.
At the very least, Mo Luo and the other great demons should have sensed something and could not possibly watch Yun Rou be suppressed without doing anything.
“The Nether Dead Land is indeed beneath this Changgui Mountain. At that time, after discovering danger, I used a token to seek help from Uncle Mo Luo and the others. It was precisely because of this that Black Nether held back, not daring to truly kill me, nor daring to let me escape the Black Tiger ancestral land.
So he used the Nether Array Token to directly teleport me into the Nether Grand Array.”
Yun Rou said helplessly, somewhat angrily, “That Nether Array Token originally belonged to my adopted father. Black Nether must have stolen it from his seclusion place after my adopted father disappeared. Truly detestable!”
After listening to Yun Rou’s account, Mo Fan gradually understood.
In this way, everything made sense.
Mo Luo and his group clearly knew Yun Rou had been suppressed by Black Nether, but they did not know exactly where she was trapped. At the same time, since Yun Rou had disappeared, there was no direct evidence proving it was Black Nether’s doing. So although both sides were like fire and water, they were helpless against him.
Later, when Mo Fan sent Black Cloth to deliver a letter demanding her return, Mo Luo deliberately revealed the Holy Son Grand Competition matter to lure Mo Fan here.
In a sense, as the inheritor of the White Tiger Holy King, he was Mo Luo’s faction’s last hope.
But there was one thing Mo Fan still did not quite understand.
Why was Black Nether so insistent on making him participate in the Holy Son Grand Competition?
In a way, his participation seemed to bring only harm and no benefit to Black Flame.
When he voiced this doubt, Yun Rou immediately smiled bitterly and said, “Perhaps I know the reason.”
“What reason?” Mo Fan looked at her.
All the cultivators in the room also turned to Yun Rou, wanting to know why Black Nether was doing this.
“This matter may be related to your divine ability.”
Yun Rou said, looking seriously at Mo Fan and continuing gravely, “I once saw my adopted father use the Tiger Enslavement divine ability. At the time, I only thought it was particularly powerful, so I asked him a question: among the demon race in this world, is my adopted father the only one with this ghost-controlling divine ability?
As a result, my adopted father told me that the ghost-controlling divine ability was actually unique to the tiger race long ago, but after countless years of reproduction in the tiger race, this ghost-controlling divine ability gradually disappeared.
Over the long years, occasionally one or two special tigers would awaken such a divine ability.
That is the White Tiger lineage and the Black Tiger lineage!”
“The Black Tiger lineage…”
Mo Fan’s eyes flashed immediately. He seemed to understand something and asked, “So does that mean Black Nether also possesses ‘Tiger Enslavement’?”
“No. I asked my adopted father. Although Black Nether is a black tiger, he has not awakened the ghost-controlling divine ability.
But my adopted father said that Black Flame has a certain chance of awakening such a divine ability!”
“Is it because of the Black Tiger lineage’s ancestral land?”
Mo Fan said thoughtfully.
“Indeed. According to what my adopted father said back then, this White Holy Mountain long ago belonged to the Black Tiger lineage’s territory. In ancient times, countless powerful great demons appeared there, among whom there were no lack of black tigers who had awakened the ghost-controlling divine ability.
Those black tigers, upon passing in meditation, would leave some essence blood in their bodies in the ancestral land using special secret methods, solely to activate bloodline inheritance for future descendants of the Black Tiger lineage.
Black Nether is so powerful not only because he is a rare black tiger, but actually because he obtained such inheritance. Unfortunately, he did not awaken the ghost-controlling divine ability from the inheritance.
When I went to the Black Tiger lineage’s ancestral land last time, I discovered that Black Flame was currently undergoing such inheritance!
So that is my guess,” Yun Rou said.
“You mean the ghost-controlling divine abilities of the Black Tiger lineage and White Tiger lineage are connected?”
Mo Fan’s thoughts gradually became clearer. He then guessed, “So Black Nether wants me to participate in your White Holy Mountain’s Holy Son Grand Competition to have Black Flame fight me, or rather… there is some method to seize my ghost-controlling divine ability?”
“That is indeed what I think, but I am not very clear on the specifics. After all, I only asked casually back then, and my adopted father did not explain it thoroughly.”
Yun Rou smiled bitterly, then furrowed her willow-like brows and asked, “If it truly is related to the divine ability, that means your ghost-controlling divine abilities are not perfect, or have major flaws, so they need to merge with each other to reach a perfect state?”
“Flaws…”
Mo Fan murmured. Soon inspiration struck, and he completely understood.
If there was any flaw in Tiger Enslavement, it would definitely be that the converted chang ghosts could not truly cultivate like those ghost cultivators, and their cultivation would forever stagnate!
Thinking of this, Mo Fan’s heart suddenly beat rapidly.
He thought of a possibility…
But soon he suppressed the idea in his heart, looked at Yun Rou, and changed the topic. “How do we rescue Bing Er?”
“I do not know. I am not even sure where she is now, or if she is dead or alive. But most likely she is still alive. Black Nether has no reason to kill her and provoke me.”
Yun Rou said somewhat dejectedly, then helplessly added, “But with Black Nether’s cultivation, even if we knew where Bing Er was, we might not be able to rescue her from him. Instead, we would alert him and anger him.”
“No matter. I have a brother who is skilled in divination. In a while, I will have him perform a divination to calculate Bing Er’s whereabouts. And not just Bing Er, but the other brothers as well!” Mo Fan smiled.
“The others?”
Yun Rou looked at Mo Fan somewhat puzzled.
“I forgot to tell you. Now in your market, only Bing Qi and Bing Jiu remain. The others all came to this White Holy Mountain to rescue you. Now I have only seen the three of you, which means besides Bing Er, the remaining four should also be trapped somewhere!”
